The American WorkmanJohns Hopkins Press, 1900 - 517 pages |
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50 cents according agricultural American Railway Union American workman Annual Report apprentices association average capital carpenters cause census of 1890 Chicago cities clothing Commissioner of Labor consumption cost cotton creased demand duction earnings economic economists eight hours eight-hour day employed employers England establishments Europe fact factory favor female France hand high wages higher Homestead strike hours of labor important income increase industry International Typographical Union investigation Knights of Labor L'Ouvrier Américain labor-unions laboring classes latter less living long tons looms machine machinery manufacture Massachusetts ment mills movement nominal wages occupations operatives organization paid Pennsylvania persons pig iron political Powderly production rate of wages received reduction regulation result social society spindles statistics strike strikers sympathetic strike textile tion tons trades-unions United wage-earners wage-system wealth week women wool woolen workingmen workmen York
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Page 134 - eight hours shall constitute a day's work for all laborers, workmen, and mechanics who may be employed by or on behalf of the government of the United States.
Page 121 - RS 3738, providing that eight hours should constitute a day's work for all laborers, workmen, and mechanics employed by or on behalf of the Government of the United States.
Page 263 - This implies that there are lawful restraints and monopolies. But the Act states that ' every contract, combination, in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy in restraint of trade or commerce among the several States ... is illegal.
Page 199 - To secure to the workers the full enjoyment of the wealth they create, sufficient leisure in which to develop their intellectual, moral and social faculties; all of the benefits, recreation and pleasures of association; in a word, to enable them to share in the gains and honors of advancing civilization . In order to secure these results, we demand at the hands of the STATE: III.